It reminds us that computers, for all their power, do not feel. And that absence of feeling, when played back through speakers, sometimes sounds more like our own loneliness than any expensive recording ever could.
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What is it? Is it a specific musical scale? A forgotten piece of hardware? A typo that became a genre? Or something else entirely—a ghost in the machine of digital audio? It reminds us that computers, for all their